Leandra Medine

Man Repeller is intended to chronicle all the fashion trends that women love and men hate. I started it because I am woman with a deep appreciation for harem pants. And sometimes blaming clothing on a sad love life is easier than blaming oneself!

American Author

Fatema Mernissi

A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.

Moroccan Activist

Jeff Koons

I would think that to people like my father, and the people of his generation, Popeye is like a male priapist. So if you think in ancient terms, he would have a harem, a symbol of male energy.

American Artist

Howard Fast

A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion.

American Novelist

Dorothy Dunnett

After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists.

Scottish Novelist

Now that Arab women are pouring into the streets by the million, men discover with dismay that they, not women, were the captives of the harem dream.

Genelia D'Souza

At home, a T-shirt and something loose like harem pants would do. If I'm stepping out, a pair of blue jeans and a white tee are just fine.

Indian Actress

Brendan Behan

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

Irish Dramatist

Margaret Cho

I am into belly dancing. I used to only hang with comics. Now I have friends who are dancers, and my whole house has a harem feel.

American Comedian

Malcolm de Chazal

The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.

French Writer

Be aware 'harem' could be offensive to some; use with respect to cultural context.

Cultural Sensitivity

'Harem' also refers to the separate living quarters for women in the past.

Historical Significance

The traditional 'harem' is mostly historical and not practiced in contemporary societies.

No Longer Common

In nature, 'harem' shows a mating system where one male mates with multiple females.

Animal Behavior

'Harem' reflects a hierarchical system among animals, with a dominant male.

Dominance Hierarchy

'Harem' can be used for groups of females in various species, not just mammals.

Not Just Mammals

'Harem' in anime involves one protagonist and multiple love interests of the opposite gender.

Anime Genre

When multiple male characters surround a female protagonist, it's called a 'reverse harem'.

Reverse Harem

Understanding 'harem' in pop culture helps grasp character relationships and plot dynamics.

Character Dynamics

 In fact, co-wives can fight with each other, sometimes they can even poison each other's children. And you've got to have a lot of cows, a lot of goats, a lot of money, a lot of land, in order to build a harem. We are a pair-bonding species.

Technology hasn't...

 harem of unrelated females and family members on any given day several groups may share the bye in peace but the equilibrium is fragile here and easily upset this morning a young solitary male is also on the scene he Swagger's in

Gorilla vs. Gorilla PIPE...

 calling for support. One of the youngsters suddenly switches from mother to father. This should calm things down With the youngster attached, the father's protected, and the harem should unite.

Defending a Monkey Harem...

 eminently edible greenery and if you're a mature male with your own harem life is full of rainbows now most of the time

Wild Horses Kick Butt PIPE...

 this old male is the beachmaster he defendants a harem of females here to give birth on this raised sandy beach

Giant Seal Fights Off...

 greenery and if you're a mature male with your own harem life is full of rainbows now most of the time

 are frantic the harem master has no protection from attack